A Janine Lindemulder Recap
“Penthouse got me known,” says Janine, the always beautiful, sometimes blonde star of over 100 adult video features. Penthouse was a magazine I’d always looked up to. I grew up on it. I aspired to be a Pet. That was really something I set my sights on. I remember looking at the girls and thinking, ‘I’ll never be able to look that womanly.’ Still to this day it’s hard for me to see myself that way.”
In this edition of The Girls of Penthouse we throw a spotlight on Janine Lindemulder, a Penthouse Pet who went on to become one of the most beautiful women to work in adult entertainment. Janine sat down with us to look back at her appearances in our sister magazine and to talk about where she’s going next.
It may be hard for her, but not for the legion of fans who first saw her as the December 1987 Penthouse Pet of the Month. “It was kind of by accident,” Janine remembers of that photo shoot. “I answered an ad for a figure model, not knowing that the ad meant naked figure model! Photographer David Schoen told me what was expected and it didn’t even faze me. I said, ‘Great! Let’s get to it!’”
And get to it they did. But what started as a normal modeling session ultimately became something special. “We took some test shots on Malibu Beach, and those test shots were chosen for the set. I find it funny looking back now, but I wasn’t aware of acrylic nails or the right kind of shaving techniques girls were using. You’ll notice that in some of the pictures I have absolutely no fingernails — I was a ball player — and in other pictures I have Lee Press-On nails,” she laughs. “Also we had no makeup artist and no wardrobe, so in some of the pictures I’m wearing my mom’s bathrobe and my grandma’s earrings. It was like dress-up time!”
Another scenario that would become an important part of her adult-film persona is seen in the all-girl layout “Janine, Donna & Audrey”. “I remember that set fondly,” she says. “It was still kind of new to me, working with beautiful women, and I felt … an exhilaration. I was nervous — actually I was very nervous — but once we were all in our characters for the day I did my thing and took charge.”
Perhaps the most spectacular images we’ve chosen are a black-and-white set photographed in a junkyard. “I take full credit for that,” Janine says. “I went to Earl Miller and told him I wanted it gritty and dirty. To me, that’s the best time, when I get to just unleash. I love any set that involves water or mud or dirt, where I can just let go. When I told him what I wanted to do, he jumped all over it. With his mind going and my mind going, we came up with something really good.” One bit of inspiration came directly from Miller, though. “The mace was Earl’s doing. He had gotten an extraordinary wardrobe person and designer and they brought that mace to the table … I think maybe I’ve swung that thing around in another life!” she says with a laugh.
The spontaneity that seems to follow Janine’s collaborations with Penthouse was obvious that day as well. Some of the pictures of me with the hose were just kind of a bonus. I had gone into the back room and was rinsing off some of the grime and Earl was like, ‘Whoa, let me get that, too!’ Those photos were almost taken by mistake, but they made it into the magazine as well.”
“Patrick was my boyfriend at the time,” Janine says of her co-star in the Wicca-inspired “Patrick & Janine”. “We had been seeing each other for about five months, and he loved getting dressed up as much as I did. That whole scene came very natural, but I was much more at ease and willing to do it than he was. He had a little bit of stage fright in the beginning. It was his first time doing anything like that, so I just told him to stay focused on me. He did, and we got some pretty hot stuff.”
Of what it is about her that leads to such hot stuff, Janine says, “It must be the Scorpio in me. I love to push the limits. It’s exciting. Anybody can do the ‘pretty-girl-on-the-comfy-bed,’ but I like working for my dinner. I’m a tomboy at heart, so anytime I get to go the extra mile or show my adventuresome side, I’m all for it. That’s just part of the excitement.”
Lindemulder Recap: Pet of the Month December 1987
“Ever since I was little girl, I’ve been fascinated by the women in Penthouse. They are so beautiful and perfect.”
“To Be in Penthouse is an honor,” says Janine Lindemulder. “It makes me feel very special. Posing was very natural and easy. It was wonderful to be nude in the outdoors with the sun and wind. I don’t think I’m a tease, but I like thinking about all the people admiring my naked body.”
“Being sexy-looking is great.” Janine Says Secure in her own beauty, she wouldn’t change places with anyone. There’s only one drawback, she admits: “I attract too many people. Sometimes I could do without them.”
Lovely, 34-22-34, 19-year-old Janine says she hasn’t had time for all the adventures she wants, “but I’m working on it.” Janine likes her sex rugged, and can tell by the first look if a man’s the right one.
Janine thinks rock-n-roll is the biggest turn-on of all. Its no wonder that her boyfriend is a singer in an L.A. band. “The first night we met we made love, and the feeling inside me was incredible.”
Busy these days with her acting lessons, brown-eyed Janine wishes she had more free time to sunbathe, “I love my body and I wish I could be nude more often.” She sees herself as a sunny California type — “the look that says I’m not taking things too seriously.”
Janine’s ideal man has long hair, a beautiful smile, and will play hard-to-get. In her future she sees travel, adventure and eventually, a man with sense of humor who will appreciate her easy-going nature. Settling down and raising a big family would make everything nearly perfect.
Lindemulder Recap: With Donna & Audrey in Designing Women
“Janine, Donna, and Audrey had modeled their original designs all day for one another, tucking here, smoothing there, to prepare for their fist fashion show. Between changes these designing women wore only smiles.”
Excited by the new fashion line, the talented beauties were eager to turn heads with their sexy designs, outfits for passionate encounters. Sensational models were booked for the “by invitation only” gala affair, and everyone was coming. “I really think we’ve inspired each other this time,” said Audrey as she warmed to her partners’ anticipation of a successful debut. “But there’s one more little detail, ladies. Have you thought of what we’re going to wear?”
“Just relax… breathed Donna as Janine caressed Audrey. “You’re beautiful with nothing on.”
These were women of exquisite taste, but never more than when they were in their birthday suits. They explored one another’s hot, wet places with deep kisses and caresses, tongues on sweet lips, fashioning a menage a trois with great style that went on and on.
Donna favored a tight and trim fit and colors that looked good enough to eat. Janine reminded her of the peaches-and-cream shade that became her so well. She had a taste and craved more.
The designing women would be fashionably late for their own fete, since dressing was not on the menu for the moment, but grand entrances were part of the fun. Let everyone think it was simply the glamour and lavish public attention that raised the color in their cheeks. Only they know about their own private show. Later they’d get creative with a little champagne and really celebrate.
Lindemulder Recap: The Junkyard
Adored by millions in the world of adult entertainment. Janine Lindemulder possesses an elemental sensuality that makes her unique among today’s top models and photographers.
“I wanted a real street-rat look for this shoot.” Our very own road warrior tells us, “I took the heels off and let my makeup run.”
On the prowl like a junkyard dog, gritty Janine is ready to grind her gears with a willing participant.
“I would love getting down and dirty,” says Janine. “Being a girl glamour girl has its moments, but I’m a lot more basic than that.”
As Pet of the Month in December 1987 and our Pet of the Year Runner-Up — not to mention her many other highly charged pictorials, videos, and films — Janine is a much-beloved and longtime member of the Penthouse family. As she says so succinctly, “My heart belongs to Penthouse!”
“I was a tomboy when I was little,” declares our feisty Pet. “Let’s just say I’ve had my share of mud fights.”
Any good mechanic knows the importance of scrubbing up and hosing down, but Janine’s method is far more heartfelt than any car wash…. Excuse us, you missed a spot.
The winter solstice is upon us, a time to celebrate the gifts we create without bare hands.
How rare to experience a religious moment so unique and rapturous one can drink of another not for intoxication but for clarity. The depths of the soul can be plumbed only when the earthly senses are allowed full rein over the body. Christmas, after all, began as a pagan celebration of sex and birth.
The object of worship inspires a first, breathless kiss… then more.
Rich as velvet, with the taste of raw earth, our passion engulfs this day as no other.
And how can it be that the simple becomes sublime, the ephemeral folds into pure passion?
The seed be not cold, but the origin of creation that in essence is our right.
Blessed be this time of simple enlightenment, when all of life’s truths converge into light.
The passage of yuletide winds through a forest of silk, a gossamer of gold, yet all that truly matters is contained in the hearts of lovers, in the gilt-edge cry of ecstasy.
Or at least that’s what they said in Penthouse, circa 1997 in a feature called “A Christmas Corrolary” in fact. As the editors in PenthouseGold pointed out, Janine has an unusual way of celebrating Christmas.
While we considered this Lindemulder Recap great fun, we do enjoy larger picture looks as a rule. … First off, we know Janine better than many people, and we can tell everyone one thing for certain: If Ms. Lindemulder ever writes a book about her life, we’re signing up for that baby the second we hear preorders have become available. Until then, in case you missed it, Janine’s “Confidential” with Sam Phillips and the concurrent “27 Things You Don’t Know About Her” list will well be worth your time. And that one’s free.
